I hate that Trump said that, and I deeply hope he loses in November, but I must say I am glad that one of the outcomes of that idiocy appears to be that Europe is actually, truly starting to take its own strategic and military security seriously.
I agree with the article here that the increased spending has more to do with the Russian invasion. On the other hand Trump’s comments on NATO in 2016 were where we saw NATO sentiment explode as people saw supporting NATO as resisting Trump. It really was key to rehabilitating the image of NATO after Libya and Afghanistan.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz declared on social media on Wednesday that his country would have the “highest defence budget” in Europe and would maintain the 2% target “in the decades to come… for safety and reliability”.
Estonian intelligence chief Kaupo Rosin warned on Tuesday that Nato could face a “Soviet-style mass army in the next decade”.
Speaking at a rally on Saturday, Mr Trump said he had once told a Nato leader he would not protect a nation behind on its payments, and would “encourage” the aggressors to “do whatever the hell they want”.
The remarks were denounced as “dangerous” and “un-American” by President Joe Biden, and condemned by the Nato secretary general and German chancellor.
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 heavily influenced Western defence spending last year, and 11 countries were expected to have met the 2% target in 2023.
Seven more countries are likely to follow suit in 2024, and Germany’s projected spending is set to climb to the equivalent $73.41bn (€68.5bn;£58.5bn), according to German press agency DPA.
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What a stupid way to waste money, producing weapons capable of hurting other people because of politics and human hatred. One would expect humanity to have evolved beyond that point by now, but nope, we still produce nuclear bombs, and other weapons of mass destruction and we are one lunatic away from a real world nuclear war.
What an awful time to be a pacifist when everyone glorifies wasting arbitrarily large amounts of money on militaries 😮💨
Well there’s your problem, you were born into the most violent species on the planet. You’re gonna have a bad time.
To be honest, it would probably be pretty stressful to be a rabbit, and they are mostly peaceful
